FD4ME - Mentoring I: Mentoring Relationships - An Overview

This short module is designed to help you understand the key concept of mentorship, the potential benefits of mentorship and the unique impact that mentorship in academic medicine can have for the mentee, the mentor and the academic institution.

In this module the FIVE major types of mentoring are defined and contrasted.  The important differences and links between coaching and mentoring are explored and the power of mentorship for improving the effectiveness of faculty and institutions in academic medicine are reviewed.

We expect that this overview will help you better understand your role in mentee-mentor relationships and prepare you for the three subsequent modules [Mentoring II: Mentoring for the Mentor in Academic Medicine, Mentoring III: Mentoring for the Mentee in Academic Medicine and Mentoring IV: Essentials of Promotion and Tenure for Mentoring] that will further your appreciation and ability in this most powerful practice!

Finally, our conceptual framework is that mentoring well, for both the mentee (protégé) and the mentor, is not an intuitive natural process but one that can be better developed by understanding the concepts (knowledge) and being able to deliver the best practices (skills).

We hope you will see improvement in your mentoring ability as a result of completing this and our other short mentorship modules.

Participants who complete this module will be able to:

1. Define mentorship in academic medicine.
2. List six different types of mentors in academic medicine.
3. Differentiate between mentoring and coaching.
4. Explain how mentorship can be important in success for faculty and academic medical institutions.

Note: If you need assistance accessing this course, have a disability that requires digitally accessible accommodations, or would like to request a digitally accessible course completion certificate, please email ScarletCanvasMedEd@osumc.edu or call 614-366-0943. We will respond to your request within two business days.